The Washington Post first broke the story on allegations of sexual misconduct against a controversial Senate candidate, leading to a debate that has engulfed the political world. The newspaper, however, has serious doubts about a new would-be accuser.

The outlet took the unusual step of posting video of an interview with a woman who it says appears to work with a group that attempts to discredit news organizations.

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The woman told the Post she was impregnated by Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore in 1992 and he drove her to Mississippi to have an abortion. The newspaper previously reported accusations of sexual misconduct by the 70-year-old former state judge against teenagers while he was in his 30s.

The Post says Jaime T. Phillips shared her story of the pregnancy in a series of interviews over two weeks after originally contacted the newspaper over email, and a reporter met with her last week, but it never published a story as reporters and researchers found inconsistencies and a revealing Internet post about her motivations.

Executive editor Martin Baron said Phillips' story and last week's meeting appeared to be a sting operation set up by Project Veritas, which targets media organizations and left-leaning groups.

"We always honor 'off-the-record' agreements when they’re entered into in good faith," Baron said. “But this so-called off-the-record conversation was the essence of a scheme to deceive and embarrass us."

In the recorded interview, Post reporter Stephanie McCrummen confronts Phillips over a post she made in a GoFundMe page saying she "accepted a job to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceit of the liberal [main stream media]." The page has since been deleted.

“Um, yeah, I was looking to take a job last summer in New York, but it fell through,” Phillips said in the interview. “Yeah, it was going to be with the Daily Caller, but it ended up falling through, so I wasn’t able to do it.”

In an email to the Post, the Daily Caller said it never interviewed a woman with Phillips' name.

Post reporters also followed Phillips from her home and saw her walk into the offices of Project Veritas, whose founder, James O'Keefe, declined to answer questions about Phillips. O'Keefe was convicted in 2010 for using a fake identity to enter a federal building.

Since publishing the original allegations against Moore, who vehemently denies the accusations, the Post has received backlash from his campaign and supporters.